The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 36

On the last day, Graciosa, who had often felt anxious to know what was going on in her father’s palace, said to Percinet that she was sure that he could find out for her, if he would, what reason the Queen had given her father for her sudden disappearance.

Who acts: Graciosa, Princess, palace · What happens: feel, know, go on, say, be, find out · To what, where: palace, Percinet, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, Princess, palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Graciosa	punct
6	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 felt	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	aux
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 felt	advmod
11	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Graciosa	acl:relcl
12	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 anxious	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 know	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 palace	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 palace	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Percinet	case
27	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sure	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sure	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	ccomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	ccomp
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 find	compound:prt
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 would	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 would	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 would	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 given	punct
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 given	nsubj:pass
45	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 given	nsubj:pass
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Queen	det
47	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 given	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 given	aux
49	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 would	conj
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 father	nmod:poss
51	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 given	iobj
52	for	for	ADP	_	55 disappearance	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 disappearance	nmod:poss
54	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 disappearance	amod
55	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 given	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · perfect	Graciosa				anxious, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	know	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go on	past · progressive			Princess's father's palace			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
4	say speech: assert	past		Percinet		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to percinet=Recipient
5	is	past	Princess				sure property	tree rules
6	find out	could	palace				for Princess	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	give	past · perfect · passive		Princess's father			for Princess's sudden disappearance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient father=Theme for disappearance=Asset
8	disappear		Princess					nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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